Literature and Medicine

Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor of English and Adjunct Professor in Medicine, University of Oklahoma, USA. He served as editor of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Theory and of Configurations. He has written or edited more than 20 books. His most recent books are Pain and Suffering (2014) and A Political Economy of Modernism (2018). He is the co-author of two text anthologies Contemporary Literature Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies and A Postmodern Bible Reader (2001).Jerry Vannatta is David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and of Humanities in Medicine (MD, retired), and Adjunct Professor in the Honors College, University of Oklahoma, USA. He is currently Medical Director, Physician Assistant Program and Clinical Professor of Medical Humanities, Oklahoma City University, USA. He served as Vice President of the University of Oklahoma for Health Affairs and Executive Dean of the College of Medicine.

• Chapter One: Narrative and Cognitive Science; Literature and Medicine.- Chapter Two: The Narrative Structure of Diagnosis.- Chapter Three: Literature and Professionalism in Medicine.- Chapter Four: Rapport and Empathy in Medicine.- Chapter Five: Listening to Patients.- Chapter Six: The Patient.- Chapter Seven: The Doctor.- Chapter Eight: Everyday Ethics of Medicinal Practices.- Chapter Nine: Culture.- Chapter Ten: Sexual and Domestic Abuse.- Chapter Eleven: Pain.- Chapter Twelve: Ageing.- Chapter Thirteen: Mistakes in Medicine.- Chapter Fourteen: Death and Dying.- Chapter Fifteen: Afterword.